The announcement that ABC's daytime drama All My Children will begin this week following a character through a sex-change is being met with skepticism by some people familiar with such procedures.
It’s unclear whether the producers will stick with the story through the fictional surgery.
Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International, a ministry to ex-gays, said such depictions do nothing to help people understand the reality of people making such life decisions.
"What it does is really highlight the inaccuracies," he said, "and fails to convey the complexities and the difficulties that people who are struggling with these things face."
Although the show’s producers were reportedly prepped by folks from a gay-activist group, Chambers told Family News in Focus he worries they still won’t portray the issue in the proper light.
"The people who are transgendered, the people who are in homosexuality, I would venture to say from personal experience that they’re not at peace," he said, "and that true love isn’t able to be found in those types of relationships."
Janice Crouse, senior fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Instsitute, said the soap-opera plot is no accident, but a carefully planned strategy by gay activists.
"They will push as far as they can until the people say 'That’s far enough,' " she said. "You can be sure unless we express our outrage, this will continue to heaven knows how far they will go."
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